I am blushing when saying the following famous last words in that I wasn’t going to lock myself into reading challenges in 2018 (except for Modern Mrs. Darcy’s challenge). Well…I thought that the Popsugar Challenge sounded interesting to me…and the way I talked myself into it was…well, there were quite a number of selections that I could use that would deplete my tsundoku and also allow me to read books in my preferred genre, suspense/thriller.
The following are my choices for the 2018 Popsugar Reading Challenge:
- Book Made into a Movie I’ve Already Seen: “Ready Player One” by Ernest Cline
- True Crime: “Columbine” by Dave Cullen
- Next Book in a Series: “The Brutal Telling” by Louise Penny
- Book Involved in a Heist: “Beware the Past” by Joy Ellis
- Nordic Noir: “The Crow Girl” by Erik Axl Sund
- Novel Based on a Real Person: “American Wife” by Curtis Sittenfeld
- Book Set in a Country that Fascinates Me: “Shanghai Girls” by Lisa See
- Book with a Time of Day in the Title: “Live By Night” by Dennis Lehane
- Book about a Villain or Antihero: “The Goldfinch” by Donna Tartt
- Book about Death or Grief: “Option B” by Sheryl Sandberg
- Book with My Favorite Color in the Title: “The Color Purple” by Alice Walker
- Book with Alliteration in the Title: “Smila’s Sense of Snow” by Peter Hoeg
- Book about Time Travel: “Kindred” by Octavia Butler
- Book with a Weather Element in the Title: “The Snowman” by Jo Nesbo
- Book Set at Sea: “The Light Between Oceans” by ML Stedman
- Book with an Animal in the Title: “Animal Farm” by George Orwell
- Book Set on a Different Planet: “Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” by Douglas Adams
- Book with Song Lyrics in the Title: “Girlfriend in a Coma” by Douglas Copeland
- Book about or Set on Halloween: “Eileen” by Ottessa Moshfegh
- Book with Characters who are Twins: “Identical” by Ellen Hopkins
- Book with a Female Author who Uses a Male Pseudonym: “The Cuckoo’s Calling” by Robert Galbraith (JK Rowling)
- Book with an LGBTQ+ Protagonist: “Our Own Private Universe” by Robin Talley
- Book that is also a Stage Play or Musical: “Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats” by TS Eliot
- Book by an Author of a Different Ethnicity: “Behold the Dreamers” by Imbolo Mbue
- Book about Feminism: “What Happened” by Hilary Rodham Clinton
- Book about Mental Health: “Wintergirls” by Laurie Halse Anderson
- Book I Borrowed or that Was Given to Me as a Gift: “Station Eleven” by Emily St John Mandel
- Book by Two Authors: “The Wife Between Us” by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen
- Book about or Involving a Sport: “Beartown” by Fredrik Backman
- Book by a Local Author: “Stingray Shuffle” by Tim Dorsey
- Book Mentioned in Another Book: “The Perks of Being a Wallflower” by Stephen Chbosky
- Book from a Celebrity Book Club: “Little Fires Everywhere” by Celeste Ng
- Childhood Classic I’ve Never Read: “Anne of Green Gables” by LM Montgomery
- Book that’s Published in 2018: “Fire and Fury” by Michael Wolff
- Past Goodreads Choice Awards Winner: “Young Jane Young” by Gabrielle Zevin DONE
- Book Set in the Decade I Was Born: “From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler” by EL Konigsberg DONE
- Book I Meant to Read in 2017: “Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo” by Taylor Jenkins Reid DONE
- Book with an Ugly Cover: “The Fault in Our Stars” by John Green
- Book that Involves a Bookstore or Library: “84, Charing Cross Road” by Helene Hanff
- Favorite Prompt from 2015 Popsugar Reading Challenge, Book of Short Stories: “Where the God of Love Hangs Out” by Amy Bloom
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